This is the main idea that you want to make about the topic. It should state in one sentence what your paragraph is going to be about. E.g. While the Muslim empires of the 14th-16th centuries had significant impacts on the world, they never came to dominate as Europe will because... (remember "rule of 3")
The Muslim empires had significant contributions to the world, but never came to dominate the world affair because they had poor leadership.
Elaboration
Write one or two sentences explaining your topic sentence. E.g. location? time period?
In the 1300-1700 centuries, Muslim empires had poor leaderships. The leaders caused the empires to fall apart.
Examples/Evidence
Explain specific evidence/examples for your 3 choices in your topic sentence.
Such as Shah Abbas, he killed many of his talented sons, because he thought they would seize his power, but at the end, weak and ineffective grandson became shah after him, and under his poor leadership, the empire fell apart.
Explanation/analysis
This is a crucial part of the paragraph which requires some thought. Here, you need to explain how the evidence/examples you provided support your main idea in the topic sentence. WHY did you choose these reasons over others? Give specific reasons AND how they explain the failure of the Muslim empires to achieve world dominance at that time.. E.g. Clearly the administrative methods used by some of the leaders of the Muslim Empires hurt their ability to rise to world dominance because...This should be about 4 sentences in length.
Clearly the administrative methods used by some of the leaders of the Muslim Empires hurt their ability to rise to world dominance. For example Shah Abbas, ruled his empire pretty fairly, but choose to kill his sons, who were supposed to continue on his empire, which caused the empire to fall apart. Another leader, Aurangzeb, caused the empire to fall apart. He treated Hindus harshly, and destroyed their temples, which caused anger in more people.
Link Sentence
This sentence summarizes your paragraph and links back to the main idea in the topic sentence. When writing an essay, the role of the this sentence is to link paragraph back to your thesis.
The Muslim empire had great impact to the world, but did not dominated the world affair because of the poor leadership, bringing down the empires.
Paragraph Writing: Using TEEEL Structure
Topic Sentence
This is the main idea that you want to make about the topic. It should state in one sentence what your paragraph is going to be about. E.g. While the Muslim empires of the 14th-16th centuries had significant impacts on the world, they never came to dominate as Europe will because... (remember "rule of 3")
The Muslim empires had significant contributions to the world, but never came to dominate the world affair because they had poor leadership.
Elaboration
Write one or two sentences explaining your topic sentence. E.g. location? time period?
In the 1300-1700 centuries, Muslim empires had poor leaderships. The leaders caused the empires to fall apart.
Examples/Evidence
Explain specific evidence/examples for your 3 choices in your topic sentence.
Such as Shah Abbas, he killed many of his talented sons, because he thought they would seize his power, but at the end, weak and ineffective grandson became shah after him, and under his poor leadership, the empire fell apart.
Explanation/analysis
This is a crucial part of the paragraph which requires some thought. Here, you need to explain how the evidence/examples you provided support your main idea in the topic sentence. WHY did you choose these reasons over others? Give specific reasons AND how they explain the failure of the Muslim empires to achieve world dominance at that time.. E.g. Clearly the administrative methods used by some of the leaders of the Muslim Empires hurt their ability to rise to world dominance because...This should be about 4 sentences in length.
Clearly the administrative methods used by some of the leaders of the Muslim Empires hurt their ability to rise to world dominance. For example Shah Abbas, ruled his empire pretty fairly, but choose to kill his sons, who were supposed to continue on his empire, which caused the empire to fall apart. Another leader, Aurangzeb, caused the empire to fall apart. He treated Hindus harshly, and destroyed their temples, which caused anger in more people.
Link Sentence
This sentence summarizes your paragraph and links back to the main idea in the topic sentence. When writing an essay, the role of the this sentence is to link paragraph back to your thesis.
The Muslim empire had great impact to the world, but did not dominated the world affair because of the poor leadership, bringing down the empires.